SimCity 2000
Developer(s)	Maxis
Publisher(s)	Maxis, Electronic Arts
Designer(s)	Will Wright, Fred Haslam
Series	SimCity
Platform(s)	Mac OS, MS-DOS, Various, Playstation, GBA,N64,SNES
Release date	1993(PC) 1995(SNES) 1996(Playstation) 1998(N64) 2003(GBA)
Genre(s)	Simulation City-building game
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ESRB: E
Media	3½-inch floppy disks Cartridge Compact Disc
System requirements	CPU 486 33 MHz, 20MB hard disk space
Input methods	Keyboard and mouse Gamepad

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In 1995, SimCity 2000 won "Best Military or Strategy Computer Game" Origins Award. The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the game industry

Overview

The unexpected and enduring success of the original SimCity, combined with the relative lack of success with other "Sim" titles, finally motivated the development of a sequel. SimCity is a city-building simulation game, first released in 1989 and designed by Will Wright. This is a complete list of " Sim " games, their expansion packs and compilations Game development is the process by which a Game is produced Today this term most commonly refers to the development of Video games Overview Development A sequel is a work in Literature, Film, or other media that portrays events following those of a previous work SC2K was a major extension of the concept; the view was now dimetric instead of overhead, land could have different elevations, and underground layers were introduced for water pipes and subways. Dimetric projection is a form of Axonometric projection, in which its direction of viewing is such that two of the three axes of space appear equally foreshortened of which The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. For the various smoking devices see Hookah or Bong. For other uses see Pipe. A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway or metro(politan system is an electric passenger railway

A city located among mountain ridges, from the Windows version of SimCity 2000. Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft.

New types of facilities included prisons, schools, libraries, museums, marinas, zoos, stadiums, hospitals (although they appeared randomly on residential blocks in the first SimCity, they could not be built by the player) and arcologies. A prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which individuals are physically confined or interned and usually deprived of a range of A school (from Greek σχολεῖον - scholeion) is an Institution designed to allow and encourage Students (or "pupils" A library is a collection of information sources resources and services and the structure in which it is housed it is organized for use and maintained by a public body an institution A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development open to the public which acquires conserves researches communicates and exhibits the For other uses of this word see Marina (disambiguation. A marina is a sheltered Harbor where Boats and Yachts A zoological garden, shortened to zoo, is an institution in which living animals are exhibited in captivity A modern stadium (plural stadiums or stadia in English is a place or venue for (mostly outdoor Sports Concerts or other events consisting A hospital is an institution for Health care providing treatment by specialised staff and equipment and often but not always providing for There is some dispute over whether this article should document both the meaning of this term as used in popular fiction as well as its technical meaning in the field of architecture or Players could build highways, roads, bus depots, railway tracks, subways, train depots and zone land for seaports and airports. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Before adding any more images to this * * page please do carefully consider * * whether they would be mere decoration * * or actually improve A road is an identifiable route, way or path between two or more places. bus station is a structure where city or intercity Buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers |}A train station, railway station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which Passengers may board and alight from Trains ||-||-|-||-||-||-||-||-||-|} A port is a facility for receiving Ships and transferring cargo An airport is a location where Aircraft such as airplanes, Helicopters and blimps take off and land There are a total of nine varieties of power plants in SC2K, including coal, natural gas, wind turbines, hydroelectric dams (which can only be placed on waterfall tiles) and the futuristic fusion power and satellite microwave plant. Natural gas is a Gaseous Fossil fuel consisting primarily of Methane but including significant quantities of Ethane, Propane, A wind turbine is a rotating machine which converts the Kinetic energy in Wind into Mechanical energy. Hydroelectricity is electricity generated by Hydropower, ie the production of power through use of the gravitational force of falling water A waterfall is usually a geological formation resulting from water often in the form of a Stream, flowing over an Erosion -resistant rock Fusion power is power generated by Nuclear fusion reactions In this kind of reaction two light atomic nuclei fuse Space-based solar power (SBSP or SSP is the conversion of solar energy into power usable either in space or on earth from a location in space usually Geosynchronous Most types of power plants have a limited life span and must be rebuilt periodically.

Upon entering SimCity 2000, you will see this menu.

The budget and finance controls are also much more elaborate — tax rates can be set individually for residential, commercial and industrial zones. Enacting city ordinances and connecting to neighbouring cities became possible.

Another new addition in SC2K is the query tool. Using the query tool on tiles reveals information such as structure name and type, altitude, and land value. Certain tiles also display additional information; power plants, for example, display the percentage of power being consumed when queried, and querying roads displays the amount of traffic on that tile. Querying a library and selecting 'Ruminate' displays an essay written by Neil Gaiman. Neil Richard Gaiman (ˈgeɪmən (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of Science fiction and Fantasy short stories and

Graphics were added for buildings under construction in the residential, commercial, and industrial zones, as well as darkened buildings depicting abandoned buildings as a result of urban decay. Urban decay is a process by which a City, or a part of a city falls into a state of disrepair

A newspaper article.

News comes in the form of several pre-written newspaper articles with variable names that could either be called up immediately or could be subscribed to on a yearly basis. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. The newspaper option provided many humorous stories as well as relevant ones, such as new technology, warnings about aging power plant, recent disasters and opinion polls (highlighting city problems). Technology is a broad concept that deals with a Species ' usage and knowledge of Tools and Crafts and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt A disaster is the impact of a natural or human-made hazard that negatively affects society or environment. An opinion poll is a survey of Public opinion from a particular sample. SimCity 2000 is the only game in the entire series to have this feature (besides the discontinued children's version, SimTown), though newer versions have a news ticker. SimTown is a 1995 Computer game published by Maxis, much like the best selling SimCity on a smaller scale A news ticker (sometimes referred to as a "crawler" is a small screen space on News Television networks The newspapers had random titles (Times, Post, Herald, etc. ), and prices based on the simulated year. Certain newspapers have a special monthly humor advice column by "Miss Sim". An advice column is a column at a Magazine or Newspaper written by an advice columnist (colloquially known as an agony aunt, or agony uncle if

The Launch Arcology, one of four arcologies featured in SimCity 2000

Though there is no "true" victory sequence in SimCity 2000, the "exodus" is a close parallel. There is some dispute over whether this article should document both the meaning of this term as used in popular fiction as well as its technical meaning in the field of architecture or An "exodus" occurs during the year 2051 or later, when 250 or more Launch Arcologies are constructed; the following January each one "takes off" into space so that their inhabitants can form new civilizations on distant worlds (although the visual representation of the scene consists of the Arcologies exploding in a manner similar to bulldozed buildings, one by one). ^[2] This reduces the city's population to those who are not living in the Launch Arcologies, but it also opens wide areas for redevelopment and returns their construction cost to the city treasury. This is related to the event in SimEarth where all cities are moved into rocket-propelled domes that then leave to "found new worlds" (leaving no sentient life behind). SimEarth The Living Planet is a life simulation Computer game designed by Will Wright and published in 1990 by Maxis A dome is a common structural element of Architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a Sphere.

The game also included several playable "scenarios", in which the player must deal with a disaster (in most, but not all scenarios) and rebuild the city to meet a set of victory conditions. These were based in versions of real-life cities, and some were based on real events such as the 1991 Oakland firestorm, the 1989 Hurricane Hugo in Charleston, South Carolina, or dealing with the 1970s economic recession in Flint, Michigan - but also included more fanciful ones such as a "monster" destroying Hollywood in 2001. The Oakland Firestorm of 1991 was a large urban fire that occurred on the hillsides of northern Oakland California and southeastern Berkeley on Sunday October Hurricane Hugo was a destructive Category 5 Hurricane that struck Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St Charleston is a city in Charleston county in the US state of South Carolina. Flint is a city in the US state of Michigan and is located along the Flint River, 66 miles (106 km northwest of Detroit. More scenarios added with the SCURK included a nuclear meltdown in Manhattan. SimCity 2000 ( SC2K) is a Simulation / city building computer game and the second installment in the ''SimCity'' Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York

SimCity 2000 was the first sim game to feature the semi-nonsensical phrase "Reticulating Splines" listen, which means to make a network of splines. In the mathematical field of Numerical analysis, a spline is a special function defined Piecewise by Polynomials In interpolating Will Wright has stated in an interview that the game does not actually reticulate splines when generating terrain, and he just inserted the phrase because it "sounded cool". The phrase has since been featured in SimCopter, SimCity 4 and The Sims. SimCopter is a 1996 Computer game from Maxis. This game is a 3D offshoot from Maxis's normal fare putting the player into a 3D SimCity 4 ( SC4) is a city-building simulation computer game developed by Maxis, a subsidiary of Electronic The Sims is a strategic life-simulation computer game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts.

SimCity Urban Renewal Kit

The Windows version of the SimCity Urban Renewal Kit. Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft.

With the release of SC2K came the introduction of a tool called the SimCity Urban Renewal Kit (SCURK). It enabled players to modify the images used in-game to represent various buildings, in much the same manner as general image manipulation software. The player was able to create basic bitmap files of a standard size with a standard 256 color palette. The use of limited palette cycling, which permitted animation, was also possible. A number of pre-altered graphics packages were distributed, including some which replaced the "reward" buildings with images of various well known international buildings, such as the Eiffel Tower, but most buildings were made by fan-artists and shared on the Internet. The Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel /tuʀ ɛfɛl/ is an Iron Tower built Several SCURK designs influenced the designs of SimCity 3000's original buildings. SimCity 3000 ( SC3K) is a city building simulation game for the PC, and the third installment in the ''SimCity''

An example of a fully-grown, healthy, large city, also utilizing a custom-made tileset constructed in SCURK.

The SCURK is divided into three areas.

• Paint the Town — A graphics program fashioned to produce custom buildings for SC2K.
• Pick and Copy — A tileset (building set) modifier, which allows users to produce new tilesets that display specific custom buildings.
• Place and Print — A sandbox-style city builder with fewer restrictions than SC2K, which also enables users to print cities on paper. The SCURK was also bundled along with Streets of SimCity and SimCopter, as the Place and Print aspect of the program was especially useful for non-SC2K users who intended to build custom cities for either game. Streets of SimCity is a 1997 racing and Vehicular combat computer game published by Maxis. SimCopter is a 1996 Computer game from Maxis. This game is a 3D offshoot from Maxis's normal fare putting the player into a 3D

Ports and special editions

SimCity 2000 has been released on a wide range of platforms and version since its debut in 1993, ranging from ports of personal computers and video game consoles, to special editions. SC2K's released ports are as follows:

SimCity 2000 running on windows Vista.

SimCity 2000 Special Edition

A re-packaged version of SimCity 2000, SimCity 2000 Special Edition, was released in 1995 for Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows and DOS PCs, partly because the original SimCity 2000 cannot be run under Windows 95, even in prompt mode. Macintosh, commonly nicknamed Mac is a Brand name which covers several lines of Personal computers designed developed and marketed by Apple Inc Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. DOS, short for "Disk Operating System" is a shorthand term for several closely related Operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market A personal computer ( PC) is any Computer whose original sales price size and capabilities make it useful for individuals and which is intended to be operated Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented Graphical user interface -based Operating system. In addition to containing SimCity 2000, it also featured the SimCity Urban Renewal Kit, new cities selected by Maxis from a 1994 competition, additional scenarios, and movies. The movies were a first for Maxis; SC2K-SE was the first "Sim" game to feature "real" videos (compared to "animated bitmaps", such as the winning screen in SimAnt). SimAnt is a 1991 life simulation Computer game by Maxis focusing on Ants It was designed by Will Wright These videos included the introduction movie and four commentary videos by Will Wright; the latter were accessed via the "WillTV" application that came with the game. William Wright (born January 20 1960 in Atlanta Georgia) is an American computer Game designer and co-founder of

SimCity 2000 Network Edition

A network version of the game, SimCity 2000: Network Edition was released in 1996 for both Macintosh and Windows.

The network edition had the ability to share in-game resources and to compete or cooperate with other cities. If the user is on an appropriate network (TCP or IPX), then SimCity 2000 Network Edition works in a similar way to SimCity 4, giving the ability to cooperate with other cities (for example, by trading electricity for money, and vice-versa). A computer network is a group of interconnected Computers. Networks may be classified according to a wide variety of characteristics The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. Internetwork Packet Exchange ( IPX) is the OSI-model Network layer protocol in the IPX/SPX Protocol stack. SimCity 4 ( SC4) is a city-building simulation computer game developed by Maxis, a subsidiary of Electronic

SimCity 2000 Network Edition featured slightly different gameplay in network mode, where mayors may start with more money, but must buy land before building upon it.

This version also features a revamped user interface. The user interface (or Human Computer Interface) is the aggregate of means by which people&mdash the users '&mdash interact with the System Instead of a static toolbar, items are accessed via cascading menus from the right of the screen, resulting in more screen real-estate for SimCity itself, without sacrificing functionality. In a Graphical user interface on a Computer monitor a toolbar is a panel on which onscreen buttons icons menus or other input or output elements are placed

SimCity 2000 (PlayStation)

The PlayStation version of the game remains largely unchanged (although the game's directions for getting help is to press alt+shift, which is only possible using a computer keyboard) The only additions are scenarios, including one that involves a new volcano forming in Vancouver (destroying most of the city, and requiring the mayor to rebuild it). The PlayStation (abbreviated PS, PSone, PS1, or informally as PSX) is a 32-bit fifth generation Video game console For a list of keyboard shortcuts see Table of keyboard shortcuts The Alt key on a computer keyboard is used to change (alternate the function The shift key is a Modifier key on a keyboard, used to type capital letters and other alternate "upper" characters Vancouver (vænˈkuːvɚ is a coastal The port also allows the player to tour their city from a car's perspective.

SimCity 2000 (Nintendo 64)

A Japan-only release of SimCity 2000 for the Nintendo 64 in 1997, produced and published by Imagineer Co. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. The, often abbreviated as N64, is Nintendo 's third home Video game console for the international market , Ltd. , featured some additional features, mainly minigames, a dating game, horse races and monster breeding, among others, all of them in 3D. A few new "natural" disasters were also included, most of them being giant monster attacks (players were able to use their monster to fight against them). Even when these extras gave the game a lot more to do, many consider it lost the original feeling of the game, since the extras were intended to appeal specifically to the Japanese market.

SimCity 64 (Nintendo 64)

Another Japan-only release, SimCity 64 was based on the SimCity 2000 game but was heavily customized for the Nintendo 64 game system. is a city-building Video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo, and is believed to be a part of the SimCity The, often abbreviated as N64, is Nintendo 's third home Video game console for the international market The ability to view the city at night was added, pedestrian level free-roaming of a city, and individual road vehicles and pedestrians controlled by their own AI wandered the players city. Cities in the game are also presented in much more advanced 3D graphics, making SimCity 64 the first true 3D SimCity game^[3].

Subsequent releases based on SC2K

A city needs a fire department, police department, and a power plant (among other things) to operate well.

• SimHealth — Released in 1994, the game simulated President Bill Clinton's healthcare reform proposals for the US; designed for a niche audience at best, the simulation never achieved great popularity. SimHealth, released by Maxis in 1994, is a management simulation of the U William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States The United States of America —commonly referred to as the It featured a user interface that resembled a city in SimCity 2000. The user interface (or Human Computer Interface) is the aggregate of means by which people&mdash the users '&mdash interact with the System

• SimCopter — A flight simulator based on the cities of SimCity 2000, SimCopter, was published in 1996. SimCopter is a 1996 Computer game from Maxis. This game is a 3D offshoot from Maxis's normal fare putting the player into a 3D It had the capability of importing SC2K cities and allowing the user to pilot a helicopter around them and accomplish missions such as rescuing people or putting out a fire. Reviewers of the time pretty much agreed that the game was an interesting idea, but once the novelty wore off players were stuck piloting a helicopter around a hideously ugly land, with very little to actually do. SimCopter was perhaps best known for a rather notorious Easter egg which, if successfully triggered, depicted scantily clad men in a homosexually provocative state. A virtual Easter egg is an intentional Hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, Book Due to the uproar, this "feature" was patched over in a future release. ^[4][5]

• Streets of SimCity — Published in 1997, Streets of SimCity was a racing game based on the SimCopter engine. Streets of SimCity is a 1997 racing and Vehicular combat computer game published by Maxis. Many Board games can be said to be racing games such as Snakes and Ladders, Cribbage, or Formula Dé. In addition to racing, it also featured courier missions and vehicular combat. A courier is a Person or company employed to deliver Messages packages and Mail. Vehicular combat (also known as car combat) games are typically video or Computer games where the primary focus of play concerns Automobiles However, the fact that this game was incredibly processor-intensive (slowing to a crawl on the Pentium II microprocessors of the day) prevented this game from being a commercial success. The Pentium II brand refers to Intel 's sixth-generation Microarchitecture (" Intel P6 " and x86 -compatible Microprocessors

• However, despite the lukewarm reception of each, both SimCopter and Streets of SimCity later inspired the feature "U-Drive-It" from the SimCity 4: Rush Hour expansion pack. SimCity 4 ( SC4) is a city-building simulation computer game developed by Maxis, a subsidiary of Electronic

References

See also

• SimCity 64, a 2000 video game for the Nintendo 64DD, based on SimCity 2000. is a city-building Video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo, and is believed to be a part of the SimCity The Nintendo 64DD ("DD" being short for "Disk Drive" is an expansion system for the Nintendo 64. The game was not developed by Maxis.

External links

• SimCity 2000 at MobyGames
• SimCity 2000 updates
• SimCity 2000 Network updates
• SimCity 2000 Urban Renewal updates